Parricide and Violence Against Parents: A Cross-Cultural View Across Past and Present - Parricide and Violence Against Parents: A Cross-Cultural View Across Past and Present -

Why do we need histories of parricide and violence against parents?Definitions and theoretical framework The design of this book Notes I Approaches to violence against parents Defining violence against parents Approaches to violence against parents in contemporary academic research Contexts of violence against parents: the family and family systems Conclusion Notes Conceptualising violence against parents ‘Bad’ or ‘mad’Approaches to violence against parents in early modern societies Discovering the psyche Insanity and degeneracy in explanations of violence against parents Violence against parents and family violence theories: general frameworks Fatal and non-fatal violence against parents Parricide and parent abuse Adolescent and youth perpetrators Adult children as perpetrators Does non-fatal violence result in parricide?Gender, race, class, and culture as theoretical frameworks in violence against parents Conclusion Notes Historicising violence against parents Assessing quantitative continuity Changes in understanding family, power, and parenthood Cultural age, authority, and independence Emotion and psychology in history Conclusion Notes II Criminology of violence against parents Defining the crime Offence characteristics of parricides and violence against parents Victim and offender counts Gender and age of victims and offenders Intent and weapons used in parricides The sources of conflict in parricides Conclusion Notes Examining the offenders The discourse of child maltreatment and psychiatry in previous works Criminological theory and offending trajectories Inscribing parricide offenders onto existing offence trajectories Conclusion Notes Responding to violence against parents Legal responses to violence against parents Traditional criminal justice system’s responses to violence against parents Punishments and their alternatives: deterrence, mediation, and restorative justice in violence against parents’ cases Community and police responses to violence against parents’ incidents Community responses to domestic conflict Police intervention in domestic conflict Contemporary family violence prevention and intervention programmes Conclusion Notes III Regional overviews: where and when European parricide and parent abuse Masculinity, economy, and violence in the Nordic countries The grim picture of violence against parents and parricide in Nordic history Authority and dependence in Nordic households Shame and victim blaming in violence against parents’ cases Family conflict, authority, and patriarchy in Russian history ‘Honour thy father’: ideal parent–child relationships and reality Litigating parent abuse: home economy, masculinity, and parent abuse Parent abuse and socialism: between egalitarianism and tradition Conclusion Notes Modernising parricide: the US and the West Parricide in the context of general homicides The character of parricides in North America and the West Argument and alcohol Defensive parricides Structure versus behaviour Parricide and race Conclusion Notes In the heart of patriarchy: the Far East Narratives of crime and punishment in violence against parents in the Far East Confucianism and parricide in Korean society War, industrialisation, and Korean families The Confucian character of parricide in Korea The over-representation of women as parricide offenders and in-laws as victims Lack of sibling-defence parricides Proprietary view of offspring Conclusion Notes Colonialism and resistance Parricide, political violence, and legal dualism in colonial contexts Domestic hierarchies and family systems Character of parricides in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East Witchcraft Machismo Situational factors Prevention of violence against parents Conclusion Notes The character of parricide thesis Patriarchy, authority, and violence against parents Notes